The Khmer Rogue was to Communism what the Taliban was to Islam. They took the shit so much to heart that even Communists had to distance themselves from them because they were making the rest of them look bad.
The Khmer Rogue were responsible for killing 1.7 million Cambodians from execution, starvation, disease or overwork in just four fucking years.
The Khmer Rogue's "goal" was to create an agrarian utopian society where there was no such thing as individuality. You were allowed no possessions whatsoever.
Even toothbrushes were communal.
Obviously people had a difficult time adjusting to that and so they were killed...by over 1,000 a day, everyday for four years.
How the fuck can you use the word utopian in connection with the concept of sharing a toothbrush I don't know.
What's killing me is that Khieu Samphan, the head of state and ex-Khmer Rogue top official maintains that he never personally ordered any killings and insists that they killed 1 out of 5 Cambodians in 48 months without his knowledge.
He had just chalked up any information he got about killing over 1,000 a day for four years as western propaganda.
He said he realized he could no longer ignore the Khmer Rouge's history after he saw a documentary film about the notorious S-21 prison, recently presented to him by a Cambodian-French filmmaker, Rithy Pan. " When I saw the film, it was hard for me to deny (the killings). There's no more doubt left ," he said.
So it took 25 years and the off chance that he was sitting at home one night flipping channels and just happen to catch a documentary on A&E to get him to understand what they were doing?
He was the fucking head of state. What is the job description of the head of state? Anyone know?
How does the memo about you killing 20% of your entire population get moved over into the "Western Propaganda to Make Us Look Bad" pile on your desk?
I mean shit dude, what else did the Khmer Rogue do with the 48 months that they were in power if it wasn't trying to kill everyone in the country?
You didn't have time for much else.
This particular prison S-21, which was the subject of the documentary he saw was so fucked up that it is believed that some 16,000 people walked into the S-21 prison but only 14 people were said to have walked out.
14 people.
When the Vietnamese army in early 1979, walked into s-21 they found only seven prisoners alive.
Most of the people that were killed at S-21 were were bludgeoned to death to avoid wasting bullets which they needed to stop the people that tried to run for it.
And it isn't like the information as to what they did at the prison is hidden in some X-files somewhere.
The Khmer Rogue were anal retentive when it came to documenting everyone they killed and how they did it. Every prisoner was photographed both before and after being tortured and always photographed after they were killed with a number board nailed to their chest.
What Khieu Samphan learned through the documentary were the 10 rules that the infamous s-21 prison chief Kaing Khek Iev had posted on a board right within the prison walls.

1 You must answer accordingly to my questions. Don't turn them away.
2. Don't try to hide the facts by making pretext this and that. You are strictly prohibited to contest me.
3. Don't be a fool for you are a chap who dare to thwart the revolution.
4. you must immediately answer my questions without wasting time to reflect .
5. Don't tell me either about your immoralities or the essence of the revolution.
6. While getting lashes or electrification you must not cry at all .
7. Do nothing, sit still and wait for my orders. If there is no order, keep quiet. When I ask you to do something, you must do it right away without protesting.
8. Don't make pretext about Kamuchea Krom in order to hide your jaw of traitor.
9. If you don't follow all the above rules, you shall get many many lashes of electric wire .
10. If you disobey any point of my regulations you shall get either ten lashes or five shocks of electric discharge.

I don't know about you but it doesn't seem like it would be much of a stretch to assume not many people got out of there alive.
Maybe it was the fact that he used the word "many" twice when counting the lashes with electrical wire that you were going to get for taking time to reflect when answering a question that made me a little cynical about your chances.
None of the top leaders of the Khmer Rogue ever did time.
Pol Pot died in 1998 free as you and I.
All the top leaders in the Khmer Rogue were free to come and go as they pleased until just recently.
The other senior leader expected to face trial is Nuon Chea, the former Khmer Rouge's ideologue, who also lives in Pailin. He and Khieu Samphan surrendered to the government in December 1998, just a few months before the capture of Ta Mok , the former Khmer Rouge army chief, which capped the final collapse of the movement.
Ta Mok and Kaing Khek Iev , the S-21 prison's chief, are now in prison. Biding their time before following Pol Pot in hell.